People v. Cureton

—Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Richmond County (Maltese, J.), rendered November 26, 1996, convicting him of criminal possession of a controlled substance in the third degree, criminal possession of a controlled substance in the seventh degree, and assault in the second degree, upon a jury verdict, and imposing sentence. The appeal brings up for *533review the denial, after a hearing (Vaughan, J.), of that branch of the defendant’s omnibus motion which was to suppress physical evidence.

Ordered that the judgment is modified, on the law, by vacating the convictions of…